C.N BLUE’s Lunar New Year starts out pretty bad with yet another scandal. This time it involves their manager, not their composer.

Here’s a take on what happened:

It all began when a video surfaced on the Korean web a few days ago. The video contained footage of a man, apparently CNBLUE’s manager, wielding his hand into a throng of fans and clearly slapping a girl’s head twice as the group members exited from a parked van. Jong Hyun, who was the first to exit the van, made an awkward smile as he looked into the crowd.

Source: Allkpop

Now here is FNC Entertainment’s take on what happened:

The video of the CN Blue manager that was posted today was taken on the afternoon of February 11th at the KBS parking lot located in Seoul YeoIeDo, right before the KBS ‘Music Bank’ rehearsal.
The manager demanded that the way was made for CN Blue to get in, however because so much fans were around the car, the way inside the KBS building was impossible.
The time was passing by and the manager was cornered with the fact that he couldn’t bring these new stars in the industry in time for the rehearsals
Even the KBS officials helping CN Blue get into the building were pushed back because of the fans and the situation didn’t get better from there.
In the midst of the situation the CN Blue members started to get off of the car in order to reach the building, and then one fan strongly pulled the hat of the hoodie that Jonghyun was wearing, almost making him fall in the process.

And then manager, already stressed out from the situation, ended up showing violence at the fan that almost knocked down Lee Jonghyun.

Source: cnbluemoonlight@Code Azzurro

Either way, here’s a visual take on what happened:

Not only that, C.N BLUE’s Jong Hyun is being bashed on by netizens for supposedly laughing or smiling at the fans being hit:

And also the netizens are commenting that Lee Jonghyun is laughing that the manager for showing such violence.
However that expression was the expression of Lee Jonghyun realizing that the fact that he almost fell from the fan that was clinging on to his clothes, since that was his first encounter there.
As you can see clearly from the video posted on the internet, while the manager was showing violence, Lee Jonghyun had his body down low, not being able to see the action very well.
Also because, Lee Jonghyun had his hoodie on and covering his whole face, his vision field wasn’t very good.
We just wanted to clarify the fact that Lee Jonghyun was smiling during the violence is not true.

Source: cnbluemoonlight@Code Azzurro

FNC…I am officially disappointed in these guys :-(